War in Japan 1467-1615 /

In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States. This is an exposition of the wars. Peace returned to Japan at the end of the Osaka War in 1615, but only at the end of the most turbulent time in Japanese history.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Turnbull, Stephen R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Osprey, 2002.
Series:	Essential histories (Osprey Publishing)
Subjects:	Japan > History > Period of civil wars, 1480-1603. Japan. Belagerung. Burg. Bürgerkrieg. Festung. Kriegführung. Kriegswaffe. Taktik. Japan - History - To 1600. Geschichte 1467. 1480-1603 History. Bildband.
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Table of Contents:

Loyalty to the shogun collapses
Rival samurai armies
The age of fission
Samurai at war
Kato Kiyomasa (1562-1611)
The end of the farmer-warrior
Sen Rikyu (1522-91)
The triumph of Tokugawa
Japan closes its doors